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| Author | Work |
|---|---|
| Parmenides |
On Nature |
| Plato |
Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Theaetetus |
| Aristotle |
Categories, Posterior Analytics I.1-6, 18, 33-4; II.1-2, 8-11, 19, Physics I-III.3, On the Soul, Metaphysics I-IX, XII, Nicomachean Ethics |
| Epictetus |
Discourses I-II |
| Plotinus |
Enneads (selection by A.H. Armstrong, 1953) |
| Augustine |
Confessions, City of God VIII and XIX |
| Pseudo-Dionysius |
Mystical Theology, The Divine Names |
| Anselm |
Monologion, Proslogion |
| Avicenna |
The Metaphysics of "The Healing" (trans. M. Marmura) I.1-7, V, VIII.3-7 |
| Averroes |
The Incoherence of the Incoherence (trans. S. Van Den Bergh) 4th, 5th and 13th Discussions |
| Maimonides |
Guide of the Perplexed Introduction to First Part, I.50-II.31, III.8-24 |
| Bonaventure |
The Itinerary of the Mind into God, The Reduction of the Arts to Theology |
| Aquinas |
Summa Theologiae I.1-13, 75-89, I-II.1-5, 90-97, De ente et essentia |
| Duns Scotus |
Ordinatio I, dist. 2, qu. 1: I, dist.3, qu. 1; II, dist.3, part 1, qu. 1-6 |
| William of Ockham |
Ordinatio I, dist. 2, qu. 4-8, Questions on the Physics I, qu. 132-36, Quodlibet I, qu. 1 |
| Descartes |
Meditations on First Philosophy, Discourse on Method |
| Leibniz |
Discourse on Metaphysics, Monadology |
| Locke |
An Essay concerning Human Understanding Intro.; Bk. 1, ch. 1; Bk. 2, ch. 1-13, 19-27, 31-33, Bk. 3, ch. 1-3; Bk. 4, ch. 1-4, 9-11, 18-19 |
| Hume |
An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion |
| Rousseau |
First Discourse: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts |
| Kant |
Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, Critique of Pure Reason |
| Hegel |
"Philosophy of Spirit" Part 3 of the Encyclopedia of Philosophic Sciences |
| Kierkegaard |
Fear and Trembling, Concluding Unscientific Postscript |
| Mill |
Utilitarianism, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women |
| Nietzsche |
Genealogy of Morals, Thus Spake Zarathustra |
| Bergson |
An Introduction to Metaphysics |
| Husserl |
Ideas I, sec. 2: "The Fundamental Phenomenological Outlook," "Philosophy and the Crisis of European Humanity" (Vienna Lecture, in the appendix to Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology) |
| Wittgenstein |
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Philosophical Investigations |
| Heidegger |
Being and Time, "What is Metaphysics?" "The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking" |